superfantastic wrote:
"need for routine and perfectionism"
I think that for me it's because I get distracted when something's "wrong", so it' easier to concentrate if everything's perfect.
That's more or less what I had in mind. We want to spend as much time as possible daydreaming, and we need the routines so we can put our bodies in auto pilot and keep thinking. It helps us disconnect from the real world and pursue our interesting lifes in the imagination.
That's for the routines, regarding the perfectionism, not every aspie has it, and I bet it's connected to the lining up of stuff some of us do.
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